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PearlRiver ◴[07 Dec 25 17:02 UTC] No.46183136[source]▶

There was a Belgian passenger plan that got lost on its way to Teheran and had to land in Grozny. Before GPS planes had literal human navigators with maps and sextants!

I would be more inclined to believe in the Bermuda triangle myth if it happened with modern planes and their transponders.

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macintux ◴[07 Dec 25 17:30 UTC] No.46183386[source]▶

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Your comment reminded me about the concrete arrows deployed across the U.S. for pilots.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/before-radios-pilots-n...

According to that, Montana still uses them.

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1. andy99 ◴[08 Dec 25 00:38 UTC] No.46186999[source]▶

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Reminds me that there were a number of planes that landed accidentally on the runway of an Air Force base close to Heathrow, apparently because it shared some similar landmarks, some kind of gas tanks the pilots were using as waypoints:

https://simpleflying.com/pan-am-707-raf-northolt/

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